On the afternoon of the weekend, Xiao Xiaohan arrived in the capital and inquired all the way about the location of Gulou Street.

He soon learned that the Drum Tower was located at the northern end of the central meridian of the capital, and could be seen from the central axis to the north.

After prompting, he quickly found the magnificent building that had gone through the ups and downs of three dynasties.

It is a building complex facing south in the north, the two floors are longitudinal before and after, the momentum is majestic, the majestic is magnificent, the typical ancient Chinese architectural style, the heavy eaves are three drops of water and wood structure pavilion.

There is a pair of stone lions in front of the south gate, there is a door in the northeast corner of the building, there are dozens of stone stairs in the door, from this boarding, you can reach the bell and drum tower platform upstairs.

The south gate of the front is now closed for some reason, and if you want to go up the stairs and beat the drum and bell, you must enter through the northeast corner gate. Xiao Xiaohan saw that the door was open, and was about to walk in, when he saw two people dressed in monk's clothes stop him.

"The little benefactor came to the treasure land, did he want to make incense or raise donations?" the monk asked.

Xiao Xiaohan replied:

"This place is a place to tell the time, is it called the Drum Tower, right? What incense do you let me in, and what donations do you raise?"

One of the two monks replied:

At the beginning of the establishment of the new regime, the monks of the chanting temple thought that the monks of the chanting temple had too much idle food, so they diverted a group of people to this drum tower to take up posts, which was to guard this ancient drum tower. It was originally the time center of the capital in the former dynasty, and the fixed watch and the bright watch first beat the drum and then hit the bell, and the second watch to the fifth watch only hit the bell and did not beat the drum. Now because the drums of this building have been destroyed by the barbarian army, the drum tower has a false name, and we can not waste the classics by guarding here, so we arrange the Daxiong Treasure Palace, worship Bodhi, if there are good deeds of incense fundraising, of course welcome. ”

As soon as Xiao Xiaohan heard it, he dared to feel that the drum tower of the three dynasties had been abandoned, and the monk had turned this place into a temple, so there was no doubt that he had to raise some incense and silver, so he took out five taels of silver and handed it to the monk.

One took the silver, and the other asked:

"What else does the donor command, do you want to go to the Daxiong Treasure Hall to make a wish for incense?"

Xiao Xiaohan didn't have any more time to kill, so he replied to him:

"I can't hide it, I came to this treasure land, I really want to beat the drum for good luck, please lead the way to the Bell and Drum Tower. ”

The two monks looked at each other, then both nodded and said:

"Please!"

Xiao Xiaohan followed the two of them into the foyer corridor, went up the stairs, and walked up.

This drum tower was originally called the Bell and Drum Tower, because the time of the year needs to be sometimes beaten and hit the bell and get the name, now this building is no longer used to tell the time, the place where the drum hits the bell is almost desolate, it seems to be a no-man's land.

So as soon as he heard Xiao Xiaohan say that he came to beat the drum to seek good luck, he knew that this person was not an ordinary benefactor, so he had to lead him up the stairs.

The drum and bell chamber was at the top of the drum tower, and they walked all the way up, passing through the dark room in the middle to the drum tower hall.

Xiao Xiaohan saw that in this drum room, there was one main drum and twenty-four group drums.

The monk took out a huge drumstick from a large gray wooden box, handed it to Xiao Han, and said to him:

"Please beat the drums. ”

Xiao Xiaohan held the mallet, and after a little thought, he struck thirteen times in a row.

Before the drums were beating, the monk said:

"Alright, please come downstairs!" Xiao Xiaohan followed the two monks down the stairs.

When I passed through the dark room on the middle floor, I saw that one of the doors had been opened, and the lights inside were bright, and a person stood at the door and said to Xiao Xiaohan:

"Drummer, please come in!"

It is a large hall that can accommodate a thousand people if a meeting is held here.

There were three men in the room, and in the center sat a middle-aged man, with a bald head on the top, a fat face shining with oil, and a face that was not too vicious but extremely cold and severe.

The other two were very young, stout and tall, like basketball players on a sports field. The same gloomy countenance.

The clothes of these three people are all common in the street market, which makes Xiao Xiaohan a little suspicious, since Sanji Company is no longer as concealed as before, why can't it wear uniforms like officials of the Beiyang government?

However, it is not surprising that the headquarters can be set up in this ancient and almost abandoned drum tower for the sake of better concealment? As a Republican investigative detective or an agency carrying out secret missions, it seems that it should be better to be more secretive.

At this time, the middle-aged man sitting in the center coughed lightly and asked:

"Who are you, who told you to come here to play the drums?"

Xiao Xiaohan was thinking about how to answer his question, and he could hear the two young heroes below shouting together:

"Speak quickly, answer the question!"

When Xiao Xiaohan heard this, he thought to himself: Haven't I come to be interrogated? Ask me who I am, why didn't you report your name first, and who are you?

One of the young men moved a chair, and the other pulled Xiao Han and pressed him down on the chair, facing the cold middle-aged man.

In this action, Xiao Xiaohan's divine sense had detected the true qi displayed by the two young strong men, and he couldn't help but be shocked, they were cultivators in the late stage of the Jiedan, and their skills were one level higher than Xiao Han's.

Seeing that Xiao Han still hadn't answered, the middle-aged man sneered and said:

"Don't you think it's strange? Young man, since you've broken in, I'll tell you, aren't you looking for the headquarters of the Sanji Company? However, if you find out that you are a suspicious friend, sorry, it is impossible to get out alive, it is best that you answer the questions truthfully. I can introduce myself, the contemptible Jiang Hao is the deputy boss in charge of the Sanji Company. Tell me, young man, who asked you to come?"

He turned out to be the deputy boss, a subordinate of Uncle Gongsun, hum! Let me say it, I'll say it, say it and scare you! Then he laughed and said:

"I also introduce myself, I am the caregiver of the boss of Gongsun Ao, named Xiao Xiaohan, my master Yan Yongfei and the boss of Gongshu Ao are brothers, but I don't know what the master has to do with your Sanji company, but this time it was the master who told me the address and contact information of the company's headquarters. ”

When the middle-aged man heard this, he nodded at one of the young men, and the man walked to a wall, lifted the hanging curtain and walked in, which turned out to be a dark room.

Xiao Xiaohan sat there, quietly waiting. With the power of his divine sense, he could hear the faint sound behind the wall, ticking and ticking, like the sound of a transmitter.

Only a quarter of an hour later, the young strong man walked out, holding a piece of cardstock in his hand, and handed it to Jiang Hao, the deputy boss sitting in the center.

The man glanced at the fax paper, nodded and laughed:

"Haha-"

Then listen to him read:

"Xiao Xiaohan was taken care of by Sanji Company last autumn. Now studying in the Department of Literature of Tiandu University, he has completed the mission of finding four killers for the company. Other merits are presented after ...... ”